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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,305, dated April18, 1899. Application filed April 1, 1898. Serial No. 676,085. on,model.)

To all whom it Ina/y concern:

Be it known that I, RASMUS BUGGE, a suband a resident of 12 Annis road,Victoria Park, South Hackney, London, in the county of Middlesex,England, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Means forPreventing Spread of Fire, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact 'specifica tion.

This invention relates to an improved' means for preventing the spreadof fire from a building or structure involved to an adjacent structure;and this object is effected by covering the threatened side or portionwith a specially-prepared screen or fire-sail.

In order to carry out this invention, I provide a sail or covering madeof strong coarse woolen cloth, somewhat similar to rough Irish friezeundressed and open as it leaves thelooni. This sail orcoveringmay bemadein onepiece or in sections, according as the size orcircumstancesmay require. The said sail is fitted with a bordering of rope around itsedges,

of the sheet or sail is strengthened with strips or belts, technicallytermed reef-bands, fixed on one side of the sheet. On the opposite sideor surface are attached other bands of woolen material; butthese areattached in such a manner that they form a row of pockets from side toside of the sail, each row being at convenient distances apart one fromthe other and placed horizontally. Along the top of the screen, sail, orcovering I provide a perforated hose-pipe extending across the wholelength of the top of the screen, this said perforated pipe being coveredwith cloth and having connectingunions provided at each end and in themiddle orat any convenient position along the length of the perforatedpipe, the connecting-unions being attached, if desired, to T-piecesprovidedin the pipe. \Vhen the sail is spread over the side or surfaceof the threatened building or structure, a connecting-hose can beattached from a hydrant to either end of the perforated hose, the otherend being closed; or, if a T-piece is provided for connection along anypart of the length of the perforated hose-pipe, the conn ecting-hose canbe attached thereto. IVhen the fire-preventing apparatus is put inoperation, water is turned on from the hydrant and is forced throughthis said perforated hose and, escaping through the holes, will saturatethe entire width of the sail or screen,trickling down and filling theprojecting pockets aforesaid and keeping the Whole surface of the screenor covering saturated with water, and thus rendering the said screenable to resist the heat of the fire and check or prevent the spread ofthe confiagration.

If no hydrant is available for connection to the perforated hose, aconnection may be made, in the case of a building, with the firehosefrom the street or any other convenient connection, and the pocketshereinbefore described will retain the water and slowly distribute itover the surface of the screen or sail, thus economizing the water andenabling the fire-hose to be applied elsewhere till required again forthis purpose.

If no other water connection is available, the fire-hose from the streetcan be directed and made to playon the surface of the screen or sail,which can be kept saturated by this means.

If the aforesaid screen or covering is provided in sections or pieces,thesaid sections may be fastened together by loops or backets, as isusually adopted in marine sails, or by any other convenient means.

The screen or sail may be hung in any convenient manneras for instance,holes or eyelets maybe provided along the upper part of the screen orsail and the whole hung by loops or cords threaded through the eyeletsand attached to dog-hooks fixed in the walls or structure to bescreened, and the same plan may be adopted in providing eyelets also toany part of the surface of the screenas, for instance, along the stripsor belts aforesaidan d the screen thereby attached to windows or doorsor other fixtures in the walls which the said screen is covering.

I also further provide a modification of this invention speciallyadapted for the protection of the outside walls, windows, and doors ofbuildings by using an endless sailor screen constructed in the samemanner as hereinbefore described, except that the perforated hose-pipeis omitted in this arrangement. This said endless sail is made torevolve upon an upper and lower roller, the top roller revolving at aheight requisite for the protection of the building and the bottomroller revolv- ICC ing at or near the ground or bottom floor of thebuilding and immersed in a trough which is kept fullof water. These saidrollers may be made of wood or hollow tube or any convenient material orin any convenient manner. To carry the upper roller,I provide brackets,each fixed to and projecting from an iron bracket-plate, which hangsagainst the wallof thebuilding. These-said brackets are hung to wire orother ropes or chains, which pass over pulley-blocks hung onto hooks orbrackets firmly fixed in the upper part of the wall of the building orany other lengths of screen being added till the amount of screenrequired is provided and in place ready for use. The motion of thescreen may be effected by revolving the top or bottom roller by anordinary crank or messengerchain or by any means that may be foundconvenient. The effect of this motion will be that the pockets providedin the sides of the screen will take up the water in the trough andconvey said water up with the screen and so allow it to lie-distributedover the surface, thus constantly keeping the screen saturated withwater. At the same time a double protecting-screen is provided.

In order that this invention may be readily understood, 1 will describethe same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1represents a front elevation of a screen or sail, showing the pocketsand perforated pipe. Fig. 2 is a section orend view of same, and Fig. 3shows a part of another sail with holes along the edges for attaching tothe other sail or sails by means of looped ropes. Figs. & and 5 areenlarged details of the pockets, and Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged detailsshowing the method of joining sheets of screen or sail cloth together bymeans of looped cords or ropes. Fig. S represents a front elevation ofthe revolving screen or sail, Fig. 5) being an end elevation of thesame, and Figs. 10 and 11 are enlarged details of the top brackets andplates for carrying the rollers for supporting and revolving thetraveling screen or sail.

In the drawings the same letters refer to the same parts in the severalviews.

A is the sail or screen, made of strong coarse woolen cloth, ashereinbefore described.

13 is the bordering, of rope, and C C are the strips or belts forstrengthening the sheet or sail.

D D are the woolen pockets attached to the surface of the sheet or sail.

E is the perforated hose-pipe at top of the screen, which may beconnected with a hydrant at either end, as shown at F F, or by a T-piecein the middle or other convenient position, as shown at G.

As has been already explained, the screen may be made of any size byattaching sheets together, which is accomplished by means of loops ofcord or rope threaded through holes at the edge of the sheet, as shownin detail in FigsKG and 7, H being the holes, and J the loops, threadedthrough and fastened at the end in the manner shown in Fig. 7.

H H are holes or eyelets for holding up the screento the wall orstructure.

The same details and manner of construction can be adopted in thetraveling or moving screen. (Shown in Figs. 8 and 9.)

The supporting-roller is shown at K, re-

volving in bracket-bearings L L of bracket M M, which brackets are fixedto or form a part of the bracket-plate N. These brackets and plates arehung in position by ropes or chains 0, which pass over pulley-blocks Ihooked or hung firmly onto a hook or other support in the wall of thebuilding, the said rope or chain continuing down to the ground or [ioorlevel, so that it can be controlled by hand at a convenient part. Thelower roller Q may revolve in' bearings, if required, and serves to keepthe screen or sail in position in the water tank or trough R. I

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fi re-shield comprising a single sheet of absorbent materialprovided upon one side with strengthening-strips and upon the oppoisiteside with upwardly-opening cups in contin uous horizontal seriesextending from edge wedge of the sheet.

9. A fire-shield comprising a single sheet of absorbent material andhorizontal absorbent strips stitched along their lower edges to thesheet and having transverse stitching at intervals to form absorbentcups in continuous series across the sheet.

A double fire-shield for buildings comprising an endless sheet ofabsorbent material, mounted over parallel rollers and having upon itssurface pockets to contain and exude Water,together with means forsupporting said rollers, means for rotating said sheet and awater-supply for said pockets.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses. I

RASMUS BUGGE.

\Vitnesses:

BJAR-NE LARSSEN, DANIEL KNUDSEN.

